Chapter 67 Sixty-seven Rainstorm
Corinna Butch.
The character details say that this person is seventeen years old and from Frankfurt.
He is a self-employed farmer. His father is a salt merchant in the south. He is currently joining a caravan and moving his family to Lavosen to do salt mining business.
She has traveled extensively with her father since she was young, is familiar with geography, has extensive experience in mining exploration, is not afraid of danger, and has a calm personality.
There are rock salt mines in the south of Alta, and also in the north, and in Lavossen.
Her parents planned to come to the area around Lavossen and find a salt mine to invest in.
By the way, help Corinna find a son-in-law in Lavosen, as she is the only daughter in his family.
After reading the character's introduction, Olivia was silent for a while.
How could she let such a talent go?
It's a pity that she has no younger brother, only a younger sister, so she can't be sent to marry into the family.
They were part of a caravan that had left Lavosen last month and was heading south. They had been safe along the way and were about to enter the city.
After they enter the city, they will naturally settle down. As long as his family's business in Lavosen grows, they will inevitably have dealings with my family, so there will be no shortage of opportunities to get to know them.
Olivia closed the character card and exited to refresh the copy mission.
Gold Coin Master. Beginner
Task description: Earn a total of 100 gold coins from the time you accept the task.
Mission Progress: 0/100
Mission Reward: +35 Experience Points
Unlocks the "Events" feature.
Olivia immediately checked the notes for the "Events" function.
It turns out that the two currencies, "Divine Blessing" and "Condemnation", are currency props used in event functions.
After the event function is unlocked, players can view all the conspiracy activities that are being "planned", "underway" or "finished" by NPCs on the map.
Of course, players can also initiate conspiracy activities against all NPCs in the map through the event function.
This "divine blessing" can be used to cancel any NPC's conspiracy event.
The two divine blessings can thwart the conspiracy that is "brewing".
Three divine blessings can destroy a conspiracy that is "in progress".
The five divine blessings can expose the conspiracy in the "ending".
As for "Condemnation", it is the currency used by players to initiate conspiracy activities against NPCs.
Two "Condemn" can create "rumors" for any NPC
Three "Condemnations" can bring "bad luck" to any NPC
Five "Condemnations" can cause "man-made disasters" to any NPC
After reading it, Olivia immediately felt like she had discovered the correct way to play the game.
This function gives her the ability to attack any NPC, regardless of whether the NPC has talents or star ratings.
And this dungeon quest that can unlock the "event" has arrived just in time.
The autumn harvest is over, and the livestock that have been kept in the manor for a year can now be slaughtered.
Olivia thought that although it was only August or September, there would not be any major changes in the manor's expenses in the next few months during the deep winter.
In a couple of days, it’s time to start taking stock of the manor’s expenditure and income accounts for this year. After the inventory is completed.
After a few days of heavy rain, you can start selling to make money and complete the task of accumulating 100 gold coins.
She finished checking the scales at the mill and returned to the estate.
The next day, the monk in charge of collecting tithes at La Vossen Church was called to the manor by Fanon and Donald.
According to their accounts, the two estates took away less than a thousand pounds of grain in total.
Another day later, the deadline for the heavy rain is approaching.
The sky was still clear, the sun was setting, and the moon was hanging in the sky. Apart from being a little stuffy and having a strong earthy smell, it was no different from usual.
Until late at night, after midnight, heavy rain fell, and the big raindrops hit the tiles.
It came suddenly, and showed no sign of stopping.
That night, Olivia slept soundly amid the noisy sound of raindrops.
Early in the morning, she slowly got up, washed up, and went to the corridor on the first floor. She could see heavy rain beating against the gravel in the courtyard.
Fortunately, the courtyard is paved with thick gravel, so rainwater will not accumulate.
The kitchen maid had already stored several large buckets of clean water and placed them in rows at the end of the corridor.
"Madam, breakfast is ready and in the living room."
Fan Xi came out of the kitchen and said to her, then looked at the rainy day outside and sighed angrily:
“Fortunately, our manor and Mrs. Renault have harvested all the grain.
It's okay if it rains this hard for just one day, but if it continues for several days, I'm afraid the crops will rot."
Olivia nodded and walked into the living room, while tilting her head to ask her:
"Have you checked the kitchen warehouse and the cellar? If there's any water seepage or moisture, move the things out."
Right now, her family's four cellars are filled with wheat for the estate's consumption next year, more than 2,000 pounds, filling 20 large barrels.
There were also several barrels of vegetables, two hundred pounds of potatoes, four hundred pounds of apples, four hundred pounds of pears, a dozen jars of pickles, two barrels of garlic and Jerusalem artichokes, several barrels of taro, several hundred pounds of radishes, twenty barrels of two thousand pounds of various beans, a few jars of chili powder, and some scattered and miscellaneous things.
There are four cellars, three and a half of them are full, and only one cellar can still be stuffed with something.
These are all kept by the manor for its own consumption.
"Don't worry, ma'am. The cellar keeper went down to check before daybreak, and there's no water seepage or moisture at all."
"Um"
Olivia was quite confident in the cellar designed and built by Erxing Construction.
"What about the mill warehouse?"
"The housekeeper has also checked, and everything is fine."
There are still more than 20,000 pounds of grain stored in the mill. These grains will not be sold until the market price of grain drops in October, so that the tenant farmers can be paid after they are sold.
Their salary, as formulated by the housekeeper, is based on an attendance plus performance model, and each person's performance is determined based on the annual output of the area they are responsible for.
Take Jacopo's aunt Lavinia for example.
From the start of spring plowing in April this year after she was grouped to now September, her basic salary is six kri per month.
Up to now, she has received a total of thirty-six koris of basic salary from the housekeeper, which is only enough for her food.
However, if you calculate the production performance, the two or three acres of land her team is responsible for can produce crops worth about fifteen silver coins a year.
Therefore, according to this ratio, she can still get about two silver coins in performance in October.
Most tenant farmers started working in the fields at six o'clock every day and left work after roll call at noon.
We work from 2pm to 6pm, when it starts to get dark, and we leave after roll call.
Many people go to the workshop to help out at noon or in the evening after get off work, doing some part-time piecework.
This is the winter fallow period, which starts in November and ends in March of next year.
During these four months, the tenant farmers can get a basic salary of one silver coin. They can stay at home during the winter or go to the workshop to work.
The average annual official salary for an adult tenant farmer was about six silver coins.
The salary was not as good as that of a laborer in town, but it was a stable job, with no rent and no other expenses, which was enough to make a living and was better fed than the tenant farmers on other estates.
If you want to live a better life, you can do part-time job to earn money.
After paying the wages of the tenant farmers in charge of each small piece of land, the output value of the land would basically only leave a profit of one or two silver coins.
Of course, the precise accounts of the tenants' wages were calculated by the steward, and the circumstances of each tenant were different.
Olivia came to the living room on the first floor of the north wing.
Caesar was in the living room at the moment, feeding the cat with dried fish, washing its face and combing its fur.
It rained heavily outside last night, and he rode to the barracks early in the morning wearing a cloak.
He ordered George to take the soldiers to inspect the flood situation in the manor every once in a while.
We must always be prepared for any accidents that may occur in the manor due to heavy rain so that we can carry out rescue work in time, although there is no special situation in the manor.
As for himself, he can take a day off at home to rest.
He didn't know how long the rain would last.
Olivia got up and the kitchen started to put breakfast into the small dining room in the living room.
This morning's meal includes a bowl of tofu pudding with red oil sauce, a bowl of tofu pudding with taro paste and sugar syrup, a plate of spicy pickled vegetables, a plate of lamb cheeks marinated in spices, a basket of dried mushroom and wild vegetable buns, and a plate of dried apricot cheese rolls.
There is also a plate of cut apples that were picked just yesterday.
Olivia is most concerned about whether this year's apples taste good.
It looks like this thing is a bit bigger than last year, a lot more reddish, and tastes crispy and juicy.
Fresh soybeans came down, and Graya and the cooks immediately ground the soybeans and cooked a pot of tofu pudding early in the morning.
Scoop out two bowls to make two flavors of tofu pudding, and use the rest to press tofu.
While we were having breakfast, it was raining heavily outside. Fanxi came in again with a letter saying that someone from Renault Manor was coming.
The man was Theresa's butler, and even though he was wearing a fur cloak, he was still covered in rain.
Coming to the edge of the dining room, he passed a message to Olivia.
All their millet was harvested early, dried, and stored in the warehouse. The warehouse was also reinforced and raised, so there were no major problems.
This time he came specifically to give a reward to Jagbu who helped design the drainage ditch on behalf of Theresa.
After a night of heavy rain, the drainage ditch he designed immediately showed results.
Even in the lowest parts of the farmland, water no longer accumulates. Instead, the water flows through small ditches into the main ditch and then out, making it very smooth.
So Olivia asked Vansh to take him to the servants' kitchen to find Jagabu.
At this time, Jagabu had probably just returned from the fields.
While chatting and eating breakfast with Caesar, Olivia's main quest was updated.
Congratulations on completing "Heavy Showers"
+40 Experience Points
Unlock "Divine Blessing" and "Condemnation"
She successfully harvested all the grain on the estate before the stipulated date.
Open the map and you can see that there is now a gold coin-shaped progress ring on the map of the two churches in the manor.
Every week, these two churches can generate two "divine blessings"
The experience value is not far from 888.
Olivia refreshed the main quest first.
"Building a Prison"
Mission Description: Build a small prison in the barracks that can hold four people.
Mission Reward: +35 Experience Points
+*1"Records of the Warring States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty"
Sure enough, the task of building a prison followed.
She continued to eat the sweet tofu pudding with taro paste in her bowl without any hurry.
At least wait for three days of heavy rain before ordering Caesar to repair the prison. During these three days, no activities requiring outdoor activities can be carried out.
The soft taro paste in front of her was added with milk and sugar, and with tofu pudding with a strong bean flavor, it was no different from milk tea.
Caesar ate slowly, looking out the window from time to time:
"Jagabu is really capable. He can really sense that the rainy season will come early."
He continued to eat. The spicy braised tofu pudding was very appetizing. Paired with the vegetarian steamed buns and the fragrant lamb cheek, it was much more delicious than toast with jam for breakfast.
This morning he went out for an inspection wearing a cloak and saw how well his own ditch was draining.
Jagbu not only managed the farmland, but also designed drainage channels for the residential area, which led directly into the small lake.
The stone banks around the lake were also completely renovated during road construction to ensure that they would not collapse when the lake was filled with water.
However, the noise coming from the neighboring manors was a bit loud.
The tenant farmers at Baskin Plantation had just harvested all their wheat and were laying it out in bundles on the ridges of the fields to dry in the sun.
They had no idea that it would rain today, let alone that the heavy rain would start at night.
From early morning till dawn, the tenant farmers on the manor finally collected all the wheat from the edge of the field and took it home. They could only thresh the wheat little by little at home and dry it in the stove.
If the millet that has been harvested and rained on is not dried, it will become moldy if it is kept in the barrel.
However, not everyone was caught off guard by this natural disaster. People like Mrs. Bordeaux and Mrs. Stuart issued orders to the tenant farmers to harvest their crops early.
After breakfast, Olivia began discussing with Caesar what to have for lunch.
Before they could figure it out, the butler came in to report what had happened in the surrounding manors this morning.
As a steward, this is also one of his duties.
"There's been a disaster on the Stuart estate. They say the sheepfolds and several of the tenants' houses have been swept away by the flood."
The butler didn't go out in person, so his errand boy would naturally ask around.
Stuart Manor is located on a steep ravine, and when it rains heavily, floods will sweep across the farmland. His family's crops were harvested, but there was no drainage ditch in the manor, so this time the livestock suffered the most.
Olivia said helplessly, "The sheep pen was damaged? If his family needs help, send a few people to check it out."
Our own livestock pen is a solid wooden house. The wood is one meter deep and the floor is two feet high from the ground. It is not a shed that will fall down with a push.
There is also a canal beside the wall that leads to the stream, so there is no need to worry about this problem.
However, after heavy rain, the water in the wells and lakes will become turbid, and you need to cool it down before you can drink it.
It rained heavily for half a day, and the rain was slightly lighter in the evening.
The rain completely swept away the already low summer temperature, and the moist air was chilly with a wind.
Olivia even put on an autumn coat and asked the kitchen to make a pot of spicy radish and tofu soup, adding more Jerusalem artichokes and fish fillets.
Caesar spent two days at home eating various soup pots made with beans and peppers with Olivia.
Served with soft steamed buns or crispy, fluffy toasted bread.
The heavy rain continued, so he could only take care of his own estate first. Every day he would check whether the ditches were blocked, check the cellars and mills, and go to the barracks to instruct the soldiers to pay attention to maintaining the official road along the river bank.
Three days later, the rain finally stopped.
Caesar then took his soldiers out to repair the gap in the road that had collapsed and flowed into the river on the official road leading to the town of Lavoisin.
They are responsible for maintaining the normal traffic on the official roads in the two manors. If the road collapses, or there is too much mud and sand or puddles, they must be leveled.
Everyone had to ensure that the road from the town of Lavossen to the neighboring town of Caron was clear.
When they go out for training on snowy days, they also have to maintain this section of road, unless the road is directly closed due to heavy snow.
Early this morning, Olivia had already put on a thick woolen coat.
She first walked out of the orchard and could see the stream under the stone bridge rushing with turbid water, more than ten times more than usual.
Fortunately, when the road was being repaired this year, the construction team reinforced the foundation of the stone bridge and made it wider and higher.
The increased flow of the stream does not affect the normal traffic on the stone bridge.
From the stone bridge to the church, you can see the horizontal and vertical ditches in the fields draining water.
As the lowest point in the manor, the lake carries all the drainage and its current capacity is sufficient.
However, two of the fish fry Antona released flipped over.
Although it wasn't raining, the air was still humid.
The tenant farmers on the manor were led by Jagabu to dig small ditches in their respective fields.
Some vegetables were not afraid of rain, and there were ditches and ridges, so they were not harvested in a hurry.
You just need to dig out the settled silt to prevent the ditch from being filled with silt and flooding the roots of the vegetables.
Most of the self-employed farmers returned to the workshops to work.
After three days of heavy rain, all workshops stopped working. The outdoor kilns were tightly covered with straw huts, which caused some damage, but it was not a big problem.
Olivia inspected the place outside before returning home with peace of mind.
In the living room, she called the housekeeper, the miller, Graya, George, Lucy, Adam and Ethan, and Gosley.
It was very oppressive, so she asked them to submit their own account statistics for her to review.
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